A week in the Scottish countryside is certainly enough time to learn, think, read, and take the first steps toward making things. We've documented those first steps below — but first, we have an invitation.

The Catalogue

What's more delightful than a little book? Museum curators have known this for decades — that's why they package images and ideas from their exhibits into catalogs you can pick up in the gift shop. We're doing the same thing: collecting finished pieces, unfinished pieces, loose thoughts, ambitious ideas, rants/raves, reviews, revues, cool rocks, and insights into something we can share. We'd like you to contribute.

Call for Submissions

We welcome contributions in any form that engages with the themes of the residency: emergence, complexity, the relationship between parts and wholes, generativity, and the conditions under which something new comes into being.

Example submissions

Short essay or critical writing
Fiction, poetry, or other literary work
Artwork, photographs, or visual documentation
Musical score, audio notation, or written description of a musical work
Technical or scientific writing

Guidelines

You will retain all rights to your work.
Contributions will be edited (in conversation with you).
Images should be submitted at 300 dpi or higher.
If your work is primarily digital, please also submit something we can put in print.

Deadline: 1 June 2026

Submit via email to cjmerzbacher at gmail dot com with [EMERGENCE CATALOGUE] in the subject line.

The catalogue will live both online and in print. The print edition will be limited run, so please reach out if you want to reserve a copy.

The Workshop Outputs

Photo walk

Striding Arches — Colour Walk

Three collages — green, brown, and gray — from a walk to Andy Goldsworthy's Striding Arches at Cairnhead. Each person photographed only objects of one colour.

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Textile & software

Protein Weaving

Kagome weaving, crochet proteins, and topology-shifting surfaces — an experiment in making something really organic.

Shared notes

Zettelkasten

A shared network of notes, annotations, and connections built before and during the residency.

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Artifacts

The Catalogue

Call for Submissions

The Workshop Outputs

Striding Arches — Colour Walk

Protein Weaving

Zettelkasten

Future Catalog Entries

Turing Curtains

Rivers & Memory

Re-dimensionalizing the Futures Cone

Flocking Lights

Deviant Cookbook

Generative Glass

All Water Has Perfect Memory